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Good Morning. Here is a great thought for the day:
Bill Gates once gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Rule 1: | Life is not fair — get used to it! | Rule 2: | The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. | Rule 3: | You will NOT make $60,000 a year your first year. | Rule 4: | If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. | Rule 5: | Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping — they called it opportunity. | Rule 6: | If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine and make excuses, learn from your mistakes. | Rule 7: | Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, have respect for your elders. | Rule 8: | Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in life. | Rule 9: | Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. | Rule 10: | Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. | Rule 11: | Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. |
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Have a
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"Each morning is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When the sun rises tomorrow this day will be gone forever, in its place will be something you have left — may it be something good. Follow your heart, it knows what to do."
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